Downe, Kent Genealogy: Difference between revisions

The parish had a parish poor House and garden although when this began to operate is not clear and there are no surviving records. <br>  

The parish burial register from 1784 contains several references to pauper burials including two infant pauper deaths in 1786.<br>The 1787 burial entry for Henry MARVELL describes a pauper death "in a field" suggesting work or out relief from the parish. The number of travellers in the village is also reflected by " infant and stranger, pauper" descriptions from the 1780's. (Downe has traveller burials from the 1500's onwards and some Irish travellers are in the parish registers for Baptism and burial) It appears likely that the parish operated relief for the poor from the 1780's onwards. <br>  

The house was situated directly opposite the parish church and is clearly shown as a House and garden on " Town Land" in the 1841 Tithing Settlement map and schedule for the village. There are references to pauper burials in the parish burial register from 1813 until the 1890's when church yard burial diminished.  

In 1844 the Union Workhouse in Locksbottom opened operated by [[Bromley Poor Law Union]] but the parish burial registers reflect burials of those from the Union workhouse for several decades of it's operation. The Union chapel records have not survived but examination of both admission and discharge records and creed registers indicate that paupers were returned to constituent parishes within the union for burial where admission from the parish was recorded. Casuals admitted to the Union Workhouse are likely to form pauper burials in [[Farnborough, Kent]] parish which covered Locksbottom and the Workhouse and Infirmary on the site.